Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance postpones opening TikTok Shop in the US, planned for the spring, to June 2023 at the earliest, after struggling to attract merchants in 2022  —  Doubts over app’s future and tepid adoption of live-streaming e-commerce in the U.S. slow plans for full launch Lees verder op Tech Meme

Deborah Acosta / Wall Street Journal: As Miami prepares to host Bitcoin 2023 on May 18, the city and mayor Francis Suarez, who still receives his salary in bitcoin, have mostly moved on from crypto  —  On the eve of the annual bitcoin conference, the city and its mayor have mostly moved on from crypto Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Roku expands its smart home lineup with a $99 home monitoring system, a solar panel to power its outdoor camera, and a multicolored LED strip light  —  Roku is expanding its smart home lineup and adding a smart security system, a solar panel to power its outdoor camera, and a multicolored LED strip light to its offerings. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Live blog of the Google I/O keynote, where Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, a general-use LLM called PaLM 2, and more are expected  —  This year, Google has a lot to prove — and at least one product to unfold. … It’s time for Google’s annual developer conference — and this year, the company has a lot to prove. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google on YouTube: Livestream of the Google I/O 2023 keynote  —  Tune in to find out how we’re furthering our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chavi Mehta / Reuters: Report: Satya Nadella tells staff Microsoft won’t raise salaries for full-time employees in 2023 and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards  —  Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google unveils Immersive View for Routes in Google Maps, with traffic simulations, parking, and more, starting with 15 cities, including NYC, London, and Paris  —  Google Maps is going to introduce a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference today. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google Photos gets a Magic Editor feature for more complex edits than Magic Eraser can achieve, like repositioning the subject, first coming to select Pixels  —  Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos.  While the company has already leveraged AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products  —  Google today announced PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities.  This “next generation language model” is faster … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google says PaLM 2 will power its updated Bard chat tool and is now available to developers through Google’s PaLM API, Firebase, and on Colab  —  At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of PaLM 2, its newest large language model (LLM). Lees verder op Tech Meme